how good is the r7 350 2gb drr5?

yes rhysiam, i think i found mostly the same information you mention, not much clear that information, it does seem to be a bit better than the r7 i have here, especially becuase i couldn't find at that time a r7 with ddr5, now i wanted to buy another with ddr3 but not available anymore and that is why i mention this card and how the performace is

yes, for gaming, just gta v, i know that this card and the previous are 720p cards, and in fact i tried the demo of resident evil 7 and ran well at 30 fps with medium to high settngs, completelly playable, surely i coud get abit more fps by playing with the settigns and doing a bit of overclocking on that gpu

that is on a amd athlon 5350, the thing performs very well i must say

last night i got gta v and gta iv, i already removed the r7 i have and replaced it temporarily with a hd 5450, it runs gta v at 1024x600 at around 17fps on directx 10.1

alot uglier and slower than the ps3 version i have, it is funny and sad at the same time

partially a wonder it runs at all

i have another option in the same price range of the r7 350, a gtx 650ti 1gb ddr5

this one specifically

https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/GTX650_TI1GD5/

i have never seen one of those and no idea how it performs, surely alot slower than a 750ti i have here, which runs really well at 1080 at medium to high settings

about the size, yes, it is for my mini itx case, the case itself has space to fit very big gpus and my psu is a corsair 500watts psu so there is no problem on that front, but the mainboard comes with very few usb ports, and i need to keep a couple usb devices connected all the time in the back, so i have a extra usb panel in the back, like this one

https://www.amazon.com/ChenYang-Profile-Height-Motherboard-bracket/dp/B00L1XU5WS/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1486647861&sr=8-7&keywords=usb+2.0+back+panel+bracket

so a dual slot gpu is a bit problematic to me because i loose the hability of have that bracket installed in there

i have a last option that is save some money for a couple months and buy a gtx1050, the one with 2 gbs

i know the cpu will bottleneck it but i think i will change it the next year, hoping for a ryzen mini itx mainboard and a 4 or 6 cores cpu with 8 or 16 gbs of ddr4, but that is the far future, next year, this year, well, go for r7 350, or the abit more expensive gtx 650ti or the alot more expensive gtx 1050, the non ti version, which costs the double of the r7 i'm asking about

thanks for the replies

i know what the 5450 is, it was bought years ago to replace a integrated hd3000 on a old amd mainboard and served its purpose rather well, still alive and kicking, not much people would have expected it to offer any form of gameplay on gta v but it worked, could steal a couple cards and dodge a guy shooting missiles from a plane comming from fort zancudo

as i mentioned, i installed it in the pc while i decided what to buy

i couldn't play with those framerates when compared with the ps3 so i installed again the r7 250, in 1360x768 it keeps around 30 fps, but cpu is almost maxed out already, it have to play with textures and other settings to get better fps and also stop the sudden disappearing buildings and textures, i thought that it was only a thing on ps3

what has me worried of buying the 650 ti is the 1 gb of ram, for a game like this, it is not much, in fact it seems too little, also since it is a really old gpu, well, driver support should be about to end, nvidia supports gpus for a long time but for how long?

the price is a big factor, it is almost 100 dollars here, the gtx 1050 is 140 dollars, i can't find a 750ti locally at the moment but is as expensive as the 1050, perhaps 5 dollars less if i'm lucky

about the ub hub, i could, yes, but is a bit unpractical, however i think it will be like this, very few decent gpus are single slot anymore, the gtx 650 ti is dual slot

in fact the r7 250 i have is single slot but the fan itself occupies part of the next slot so when i use it, i can't use the bracket in the back

i will change mainboard, cpu and ram but that will happen next year and meanwhile i can play gta v with all new dlcs, something not possible on ps3, it was abandoned in december 2015

i will try to get the money for at least the 650 ti so i can use it later with the new pc, as always it i growing pc, but a mini itx, so it limits what i can and want to do, also as always, budget is a problem

i think if the budget gets too hard, i will get the r7 350, if there is more money, the 650 ti and if i'm lucky a 1050 from msi

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1050-2G-OC.html#hero-overview

a shame that the 1050 ti costs 200 dollars here

as you see i'm limited to local stores for this build, bring parts from amazon on some cases, well, transport costs makes impossible the idea

thank you, i get prices directly from local stores and from some big distributors also, that is why i find limited models and brands, and the question for a specific brand and model of gpu

when i can buy on amazon, i do it, but dollar fluctuates alot making the purchase and the transportp proces alot more expensive, sometimes is cheaper to bring things and sometimes is cheaper to buy things locally, at the moment it is cheaper locally